Which awards should I list?

chaosakita
Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:05:38 +0000

On the common app, you can list any amount of awards you want. However, only the top 5 will get printed out. Here were the five I thought I was going to list:


Top 10% for 9-11th grades
AP Scholar with Distinction
Admission into state’s Governor school
National Spanish Exam Awards
National Merit Semi-finalist


However, I recently won a fairly prestigious award for a math competition, and I don’t have the space to list it with the math team. So I think I’m going to list it in my awards instead. But I don’t know which ones to cut out. Cutting out one of the first two seems like the obvious choice, especially the first one. But I’d like to show colleges that I have had strong academic performance for the last three years. I’m not sure if it is as important as my math award though. In any case, I guess a lot more people get the top 10% award then the math award. Should I cut out my Top 10% listing in favor of my new math award?